Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river-or in the ones you know and love the most.Īs word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The electrical grid sputtered law and government collapsed-and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (December 2017)Ī stunning novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts- Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives. McKenzie Workman, Powell's Books, Portland, OR I’ll be counting the days until the next book in the series releases!” Although Year One chronicles the near-extinction of mankind, the story is one of rebirth and the persistence of hope, rather than despair. I read this in one sitting, on the edge of tears at all times as I moved through every emotion. A new disease has rapidly infected most of the world, leaving behind survivors who exhibit mysterious-and dangerous-new abilities. “Nora Roberts steps away from romance to give us an absolutely devastating story of global cataclysm. Annie Carl, The Neverending Bookshop, Bothell, WA Winter 2018 Reading Group Indie Next List This fabulous departure from Roberts' usual storytelling is refreshing and compulsively readable!” The scattered bits of humanity that remain struggle to fight the chaos that descends, as some characters - Lana and Max, Arlys and Fred, and Rachel and Jonah - find themselves immune to the plague. A plague that starts on a small farm manages to destroy almost the entire human population on Earth, and those who are left find themselves changed - some for better, some for worse. “This new novel from legendary romance author Nora Roberts feels entirely fresh and utterly compelling.

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